Should be easy to find then, especially the 20' dia hole in the lake object. I would be dawning my scuba gear and metal detector. 40 x the price of gold...
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, Daniel Rocha wrote: > 1m3 of an asteroid weights 7tons, usually. If its radius is 7.5m, then we > have a volume of 4/3*pi*(7.5) ~ 1800m^3. The total weight is around > 12thousand tons. Not much, really. > > > 2013/2/20 ChemE Stewart <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> > >> 10,000 tons is A LOT OF STUFF >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:06 PM, ChemE Stewart >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> >> > wrote: >> >>> Where is it? >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, Daniel Rocha wrote: >>> >>>> There is nothing unusual about that asteroid. Calculate the kinetic >>>> energy of a sphere with 15m of diameter at 30km/s. Consider the typical >>>> density of 7g/cm^3. The kinetic energy released is around 500ktons of tnt >>>> and its weight around 10ktons. >>>> >>>> >>>> 2013/2/20 ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> Close, probably dark matter nuclei.... :) >>>>> >>>>> I think I read 50m diameter but I have not done the math. >>>>> >>>>> I want to see if they can find what made that perfectly round 20'-30' >>>>> diameter hole in the ice. So far nada... >>>>> >>>>> Should be worth a lot if it exists. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:49 AM, ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> > You, like NASA, are off by at least a factor of 1000... >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/19/russian-meteorite-1000-times-bigger-than-originally-thought/ >>>>>> >>>>>> That article makes no sense at all. Maybe they mean the energy >>>>>> released was bigger; but, they still say it was only 15 m in diameter. >>>>>> Oh, I see, the density was 1000 times greater. Well, heck, we must >>>>>> have had a piece of a neutron star hit us. >>>>>> >>>>>> <sigh> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Daniel Rocha - RJ >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>> >> > > > -- > Daniel Rocha - RJ > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> >
